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...author Sophie Kinsella is one of the reigning stars in chick-lit, the popular wish-fulfillment novels now being written and marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
...know I have the right number. I used speed dial. So come on, pick...
...stores; 7-Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores will be enabled by next year, says Rick Updyke, V.P. of business development. And perennially coinless drivers in Coral Gables, Fla., can register online with Toronto-based PayMint and pay the city's 4,600 parking meters by cell phone. Parkers dial a toll-free number, log in, enter their lot number and log out after parking. (Of the current 850 users, 10% have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25¢ per parking period.) Text messages inform parkers that their time is up, with the option...
...Still, the Outlook synch resulted in the only negative experience I've encountered on the phone. Since all of the numbers in my phonebook are 10 digits (that is, none of them start with 1), they all dial fine using my mobile line, but get caught up using my landline. I've pored over the instruction manual to find a remedy for this, and all I can think of is to add 1s to every number, since the mobile line is smart enough to ignore them...
DIED. Ray Milland, 79, Welsh-born actor whose intelligent, graceful and urbane professionalism distinguished both dramatic and comedic roles in more than 120 films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970), as well as most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went...